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Tele-psychiatry helps small provider expand services, treat during pandemic

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

As is the case nationally, psychiatry is in limited supply in the area of River Valley Health and Dental Center in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. That said, as a large primary care office offering integrated behavioral health, it was important to expand mental health services to include specialty care for patients.

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19Labs’ GALE eClinics, Aetna Better Health, and the West Virginia Primary Care Association Partner to Support School-Based Healthcare

19 Labs

Supported by a $2 million grant from Aetna Better Health , the West Virginia Primary Care Association (WVPCA) and 19Labs are partnering to expand healthcare access across West Virginia, benefiting over 570,000 patients, including some of the state's most vulnerable populations.

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Honor Your Doctor – It’s National Doctors Day Today (and EveryDay)

Health Populi

There are physician shortages for both primary care and certain specialty areas like surgery, psychiatry geriatrics and…infectious disease. with larger concentrations of older patients lacking sufficient expertise and bandwidth to care for the special and multi-pronged needs for which geriatrics-trained clinicians prepped.

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How telepsychiatry is helping chip away at the mental health crisis

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In an interview with Healthcare IT News , Varrell talks about how healthcare organizations are coping via telepsychiatry with the mental health crisis, how tele-psychiatry has changed over the last two decades and the requisite bedside manner for tele-psychiatry. But the key thing we see being lost is psychiatry offerings.

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NextGen Expands Ambient Assist AI Solution for Small Practices

Healthcare IT Today

The expanded functionality also includes speciality-specific models for psychiatry, cariology, pediatrics, and primary care. Now NextGen can surface the suggested code, the doctor can verify it, and with a click of a button it will be written into the appropriate fields in the EHR.

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Telehealth helps reduce depression in youth, Texas consortium finds

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

In 2019, the Texas Child Mental Health Care Consortium (TCMHCC) received funding for five different statewide behavioral health programs. They include a primary care access program that facilitates consults for primary care physicians; a school-based telehealth access program for direct intervention for students; and more.

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How one health system harnessed AI, telehealth to combat coronavirus

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

"By the 30-day mark, clinic volumes for the enterprise were at 69% of the pre-pandemic levels, with 67% of the volume obtained through virtual care," researchers wrote. Some departments such as psychiatry and primary care were exceeding their pre-pandemic clinical volumes."